Virtue Rationality and Religious Beliefs: with an Emphasis on Theory of Sosa by Saeedeh Fakhkhar Noghani

“…These presuppositions lead to a new concept of rationality that can defend the rationality of religious beliefs.Therefore we can hold the possibility of religious knowledge against skepticism and its rationality against atheism.…”
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Public Communication of Technological Change: Modest and Less Modest Witnesses by Per Hetland

“…Hence, journalists immodestly dramatize the future by boosting a new technology or turning its risks into threats, while researchers acting as “modest witnesses” pour oil in troubled waters, indicating skepticism about the journalistic approach. Consequently, the technology popularization field is structured in two dimensions: from public appreciation of technology via public engagement to critical understanding of technology in public, and from expectation-based argumentation to research-based argumentation.…”
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Progressing Fragmentation of Political Science by Kseniya Oksamityna

“…However, Global Studies, as a discipline, is only in the making; its emergence is surrounded by healthy skepticism. …”
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Policy Problematic Islamic Educational Institutional In Increasing The Quality of Education by Achmad Fadlan, Minnah elwidah, Ridwan Ridwan, Lukman Hakim

“…There are several issues in the policy issues of Islamic education institutions, such as the skepticism of society, the lack of vision and mission in Islamic educational institutions, and the facilities and infrastructure that are Inadequate efforts must be made by Islamic educational institutions to overcome the problems of these educational policies, namely building public trust in officials who sit in Islamic educational institutions regarding the policies implemented by every leader in Islamic educational institutions…”
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Johann Beckmann (1739-1811) and Modern Chemical Technology by Juergen Heinrich Maar

“…Beckmann’s holistic approach to technology, expressed in “Anleitung zur Technologie” (1777) and “Entwurf einer Allgemeinen Technologie” (1806), also engages with economic, social, cultural and ethical problems, giving the term ‘technology’ a new meaning. Viewed with skepticism in his time, there was a revival of Beckmann’s ideas by Franz Exner (1840-1913) in 1878. …”
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Norwegian citizens’ responses to influxes of asylum seekers: comparing across two refugee crises by Lise Bjånesøy, Hege H. Bye

“…Attitudes to immigration were more negative in 2016 than in 2022, and skepticism and avoiding asylum seekers was more common. …”
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Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of parotid gland camouflaging as sialadenitis: A case report by Sudharani Biradar, Tanvy Sansgiri, Anita Munde, Basawaraj Biradar

“…The patient was treated successfully with chemotherapy. A high degree of skepticism is involved in an early diagnosis of NHL as it can mimic benign and malignant entities.…”
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Timpul parusiei în învățăturile lui Isus Hristos (partea I) by Laurențiu Florentin Moț

“… In parallel with the formation of millennial dreams in Europe and America, the 19th century witnessed how rationalism, secularism, and skepticism permeated NT studies, including eschatology. …”
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What counts as theory, today? A post-philosophical framework for socio-legal empirical research by Mariana Valverde

“…While legal researchers’ skepticism about much of what is on offer under the name of theory is well grounded, there are nevertheless theoretical resources that can very much benefit empirical researchers. …”
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Timpul parusiei în învățăturile lui Isus Hristos (partea I) by Laurențiu Florentin Moț

“… In parallel with the formation of millennial dreams in Europe and America, the 19th century witnessed how rationalism, secularism, and skepticism permeated NT studies, including eschatology. …”
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Crise e Consciência : ensaio sobre a descristianização de Portugal no século XVII by António Vitor Ribeiro

“…As this situation became more evident, two opposite forms of reaction emerged. On one hand a skeptical attitude towards religion, sometimes even unbelief and atheism, grounded on XVIth century pyrrhonism and skepticism. …”
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L’identité projetée des DRH by Ivan Sainsaulieu, Éric Zufferey

“…Their collegiality is weak, their social intermediation role is not perceived as an equitable one by workers, RH assessment is not legitimate in every Executive Board, and RH wiser colleagues are skeptical about technical tools and promote face to face relations. …”
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Polarization patterns of light enable geolocalization in oceans by Lihong V. Wang

“…Emulating a sextant using these underwater polarization patterns, the study determines geolocation in underwater settings. Despite prior skepticism, even in low-visibility waters, these patterns, learned through a deep neural network, provide geolocation accuracies of 55 km at 8 m and 255 km at 50 m. …”
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Deliberators, not Future Citizens: Children in Democracy by Kei Nishiyama

“…There exists a widespread skepticism reinforced by notions of socialization and remediation about children’s capacities, knowledge, experiences, and interests in democracy, and this leads to a conceptualization of children as “future citizens.” …”
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Medicine Masks of the Iroquois People as Revealed by the False Faces Society by Josef Niesyto

“…The elder generation of Indians has maintained their faith in the mystical power of the rituals, while the secularized new generation approaches them with a strong skepticism. …”
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Source Criticism or Dilettanti? Some thoughts on "Scandinavia's Oldest House" in Tingby near Kalmar, Småland by Lars G. Johansson

“…This article questions the dating and, more particularly, the way in which it was obtained. lnadequate source criticism, improper use of 14C dating and the lack of rigorous presentation of evidence in the argument itself means that both the date and the excavators' method must be regarded with considerable skepticism. The probability that the Tingby settlement is a multi-component site is supported by the 14C date from 9 millennia, among other evidence, but is explained away in a methodologically unacceptable way by the excavators. …”
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Radical Innocence: Margaret Fuller’s Utopian Rome by Leslie Elizabeth Eckel

“…Instead, she expressed skepticism of Brook Farm and Fruitlands, predicting empty rhetoric and certain failure. …”
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AUDIT PARTNER TENURE DAN AUDIT FIRM TENURE TERHADAP EARNINGS MANAGEMENT PADA PERUSAHAAN MANUFAKTUR by Sisylia Nata

“…The length of an auditor and a public accountant firm audited a company are feared to reduce auditors' independence, objectivity, and professional skepticism so that earnings management increases. On the other hand, understanding clients' business better enables auditor to detect earnings management. …”
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Four Tools for Critical Inquiry in History, Social Studies, and Civic Education by Ángela Bermúdez

“…In this paper, I draw upon scholarship on critical thinking, history education, moral education, and critical pedagogy to propose four tools for critical inquiry in the social domain: Problem-posing, Reflective skepticism, Multi-perspectivity and Systemic thinking. …”
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A Multi-Party Imaginary Dialogue about Power and Cybernetics by Phillip Guddemi

“…There is a deep irony in that my way of thinking is primarily rooted in the cybernetic anthropology of Gregory Bateson; however, he was deeply skeptical of the concept of power. My personification of him in this dialogue, as “Bateson,” demonstrates this skepticism and brings into the discussion other relevant ideas of his. …”
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